The Sun. — London, England, 1810-07-30 00:00:00

r2..4. NIA! 1 - ,S: Akar , ' vo—l I raziis, z Dublin, 3 Waterford. 1)6 6—l Lisbon), i Cadiz. oF , sTocKs THIS PI ! ..Y AT TWILVZ (A'ILOCK . 684 I . Red. '69i gmium.. T 1 1 E S' U N. SOI.EI4 • .QVIS DiCEREfALSUM, Auotai ? t N D UN, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1810. Consols This morning dispatches from Lord W ELLANG• TON were . receivedat Lord LIVERPOOL'S office ; in Downing street. We are sorry to say they contain. an 'aCCOULII of-the surrender of Cuidad . Roderigion. the •10th inst. after a most, gglant .defence. If it had .been practicable to, relieve. that place ; Lord WELLINGT O N Would-undqubtedlzhavemade the at , teutpt, but the force of the enemy was so superior as to preclude all hope of.suCcess.. The farce etr played by-the enemy in the 'siege consisted of the 6ih and Bth corps o}' the 1 7 1etiCh army, amounting to very near # Th 50,000 me It does not appear -that the enemy had made any moveracnt-of consequence subsequent to the suirender of Ciudad Rodrigo,— . Lord WeLLlNdros'S head-quarters were at Alverca on the t ith.. Dispatches have also been rece'ved from Cadiz,. which state, that the enemy had not made any fresh attempt on that place, and, except now and then a shot from a battery which they have erected in the rear o► Montagorda, there is scarcely any ap pearance of a siege. Provi,ions were in great abund ance. General FERGUSSON arrived at Cadiz on the. Bth inst. '• This morning we received Spanish and Portuguese Papers, the former to the 14th and the latter to 15th inst. The importance of their contents is con siderably diminished by th 'intelligence whiCh we have communicated above. We have however, • made some extraas from them; because they state, that the Spaniards are Carrying on with great suc cess, that • desultory speCies of warfare, which has hitherto ifriiVed SQ destruaive to the French. We are happy to find that in two or three instances, which the Portuguese troops have been engaged, in skirmishes with the French,. they hate behaved ,ex tremely well. • Majesty's ship Si. Albansl3hs arrived at Deal stith several Indiamen under 'convoy: This morning we received Ilv'ew York Papers, but not of a later date than those which had previously reached us. The account received by the AM _Adams, of BUONNPARTE'S Decrees for confiscating American_ Property, seems to .have excited a very strong sensation. in America. The Sandwich packet, from the Leewatcl Islands, has arrived at Falmouth. We are happy to find that there was no foundation whatever tUr the re port of the massacre at Dominica. Paris Papers to the 22d init. reached town yester day. They contain very little news. The expe dition 'against Sicily was, it said, on the point of taking place, we may, therefore, expe6t intelligence of importance from that quarter. The Gazette contains the official account of the Expedition along the Northern Coast of Spain, the substance of which we laid before our Readers on Saturday. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au- CI,TA and SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady LOLLY EH, licHeralS GARTH, Ond WYNYARD, went to Sir George's Chapel, and heard a sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. CooKsoN. The Royal Party after wards returned to the Palace. Saturd.ly morning his AIAJESTAY, the Duke of • CAMBRIDGE, Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA, to,k an airing in Windsor Great Park, till twelve o'clock. Princest AMELIA i much better, and is able to he taken into her garden for the benefit of the •air. Yesterday morning, the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in Lis undress iegimenials, accompanied by his Aid-du- Camps, attended Divine Service, with the brigade of Guards, at Whitehall Chapel, for the first time si ore it has undergone the rep its and alterations for the accommodation of the Guards. Oti Friday evening Sir HENRY HALIVRD, Doc tors liAtti - .IF. and DuNom, arrived at Princess poi Et.ti's house, in St. Alban's-street, Windsor, Where they . stopped that night, and returned to Lon don on Saturday morning. Commercial Licenses continue to be granted in great abundance by Earl BATHURST, the President Of the Board of Trade. Saturday morning several detachments belonging to that gallant regiment, the 81st, passed through town for different parts. of this kingdom and St:land, for the purpose of recruiting. Mr. Aditir had not lett Constantinople on the 25th May. A British frigate was in waiting to convey him to England as soon. as the state of his health would airlift. Ti , e sum left by the late. Mr. CAVENDISII to Lord G1:01IGE CAVENDISH and Ins three sons, instead of beilig 300,0001. as has, been hiated, proves to be full 700,0001. NAVAL NEWS. From the LONDON GAZETTE, jut,' ig.lo. Atimitally , olfire, July 28, 1810. Copy of a Letter from Captain Mends, of his Majesty's ship the.Arethusd, addiessed to ( \Unwed Lord • Gambler, and • transnlitted by Ins Lordship tobolin , Wilson (.10/Kr, His Majesty's_ ship A rethusa, off Benno.), futy't tgia. SI R, After a consultation with the . Junta of Agitur . jas. .on.the 24th ult. 1 consented to receive On hoard of the squadron your Lordship has .been pleased to place under my command, the Spanish .Brigadier . General Kober, and 'five hundred of InS Solders, with the int titiOtt of beating - up the, enetny's quar-. ters along the coast of Cantabria and Biscay, in_ order to ,make a diversion of his troops towards the sea ports in his possession,. and thus afford an opportu nity for a combined InOvement of the Spanish armies.. in Asturias, by compelling the enemy to 'detach more of his forces to ()prose us, and thereby weaken the. interior of that plovince and St. Andero, or to suffer hii:sea-defence4; to be destroyed and his slap . Tiles coustways cut , off, the*one or other alternative . appearing to me an, ineritaale result of such move ments. I hive cow the pleasure of informing yOur Lordship. tn-it N liave completely succeeded in the maritime part of tne expedition-without the loss of. a.single man, tiavii4 •destroyed all the . batteries (with the exception of CAstri) from St. Seb:stian to Sr. Ander on whiCh were round about one hun clet.i - pieces of heavy cannon altogether, and laid that whole extent of sea-coast entirely bare of de. -'l6l - :ce. • • Communications are thus opened with these pro ' vinces, and the zealous attachment of the ihhabi tail's .to the independence of their country aster tamed, should it hereatter be deemed expedient to atit it.. The strong port of Santona, and the numerous batteries rouidßerrneo,-heing dismantled, our ships will have. in tuture rwo good anchorages on: the coast in westerly ? ,ale, as it will be n ork of .con siderable time and lauour tole-Mount heavy. cannon on the %qui' us eminences of those ..places,, which must all be conveyed by sca,. tht country being so extremely mountainous .and the roans so bad that land-carriage is almost iinpradicable. The brig . aue of seamen and tnarines - from the squa dron being commanded by she lion. Capt. Aylmer, of the Naicissus, his letter to tne of the 9th instant will inform your Lordship of the events which. took place on their landing at Santona, - and. during the short' time they' occupied it. To the zeal and ability of that excellent officer I am much indebted, asvell as to that of Captain Bowle,i,, of the Medusa, who most anxiously so:icited to be attached to the bri gade, and acted as second in command; Mr. Hugh Pearson, my First Lieutenant, ant Lieutenant Desbrisay, commanding the marines, distinguished tiemselves by their exemplary condutl, as, in short, din all the other officers and men composing the. brigade. ttie disposition of the boats made by Captain Gal way, of tile Dryad L assisted by Captain Joyce of the Atnazon, at our different landings, was so judicious as to prevent either confusion or loss where the surf was trequealy extremely dangerous to approach; nor were the services of Captain Digby, of the Cos- sack, less itnpOrtant in forwarding every part of.the variuns duties goin'g on both. night and day, and I : have only to regret that the early retreat of the enemy on the 7th deprives me of an opportunity of announcing your - Lorkls4ip his entire defeat and surrender. Having by our land;ng at Santona induced the etwiny to abandon several positions in the interior, as well as on the sea-eoast, in order to collect a suf ficient force to prevent our continuing in possession of that place, 1 shall be happy to find that the ar mies of Asturias, and of the mountains of An dero, have been put in motion, during the absence of the French, wnieh was the principle agreed upon bet ween the Junta of Asturias and myself, but as yet I have no intormation on that head. This expedition has however cost the enemy up wards of 200 men, besides an infinity of trouble and marching, and added nigh Jut) volunteers to General ?orlier's little army. I an► also happy in having this opportunity of bearing testimony to the talents of that distinguished officer, and the gallantry of his small band of officers and soldiers, who on every occasion were emulous for their own and coun try's honour. I am now proceeding Westward, to land the Ge neral and his men at ltibadeo, and shall feel happy if the complete success of this little expedition, the zeal with which it. has been executed, and the, prin ciple on which it was undertaken, be honoured with your Lordship's approbation. I have the honour to be, &c. It. MENDS. Right Hon. Lord Gambier, Admiral of the Blue, &c. SIR, Narcissus, j ul}• g, 121 D. Herein I beg leave to detail the. proceedings of the battalion or seamen and Royal Marines which you did me the honour to place under my command, atting in conjunction with, and under the orders of Brigadier-General Porlier. On the morning of the sth inst. we landed with the Spanish force on the beach to the westward of Santona, and immediately went forward to the town, which we entered without any loss, the Fiench re tiring across the river; our advanced' guard under Lieutenant Desbvisay, of the the marines of the Amazon, with the Spanish tirailteurs, succeeded in stopping a part of the rear guard of the French, alter killing two, and wounding a Jew more, and taking some prisoners : in the course, of the day, Brigadier-General Porlier, sent off some of his men, on the road to St. Auden), and, Lieutenant Pearson, of the Arethusa, was detached with a party of sea . - men to destroy the guns in the lons, which was cotn. pletely effected. The dth was employed in examining the place, in case of being attacked by the French, whom we had reason to exped would advance in force from St. Andero. On the morning of the 7th we placed the boats' carfonades on a hill which commanded the Isthmus leading to the town, and posted the men along the hedges' and vineyards in trout of the position, the Spaniards on the right on a sand-hill, and the Eng lish wi?h the Spanish tirsilkurs; in the• centre and left. At about eleven o'vl.,ck, A.M. a firing was ..`heaftl, sitid our advanced patties retired, closely lowed by the French. The marines composing our outVost, under Li2ritenant Fennel, of the ArAhnsa, retired in the most perfect order. Very shortly the enemy was observed advancing .rapidly in three co lumns, one. making for the right, the other lot the left, keeping the third in reserve; their principal object appeared the right, where the Spontaids were' posted, but they were almost immediately checked by the steadiness, of the reception they there met with, and a few shot being fired from our battery ; the • other column on our left scarcely - advanced, but tired at a distance; .finding, probably, our prepara tions tna.le with mote strength than they imagined, 114 faced about and retired, leaving several killed -and wounded. The enemy's force ap\eared to consist of between seven and eight hundred men, and I have only true . gret that they did not advance Dearer, for had they dose so, 1 am convinced a most complete and entire i destruction of their whole force would base taken place. Brigadier-General Pottier detached his sharpshont . ers to harass their rear ; they succeeded in killing and wounding several, and making some prisoners ; on the whole, leonceive the loss of the French in the three several days, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, amounts to about one hundred and Stiy men. The whole of the guns, &c. in Santona and Laredo are destroyed, consisting of twenty-two twenty-lour pounders, and tour thirteen-inch brass mortars. On the Bth in the morning, according to your directions I withdrew the guns . and amrouniTion, lice. and re-embarked with the people, without any loss; the Spaniards only having seven men wounded. 1 Dave • now to acknowledge the obligation I am under to Captain Bowles, of the Medos:t, for his in- defatigable adivity in getting every thing arranged, , and having•the men in such perfed order when the enemy advanced, as well as to express the great Aislaction 1 telt at the steadiness and firmness' with which the men awaited the attack. Lieutenant Reei, of the Dryad, who did the duty of Adjutant to the Battalion, has also my sincere thinks, tor the asbistanee he gave me in theTdifferent diretOons, ar,d for his unremitted atteotton to the order of the whole. The only Officers who had the bast 'op _ portunity to distinguisti‘themselves were Lieutenants Desbrisay and Fennel, of the . Marines, who com manded the advanced guards during the two little affairs. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) F. W. AYLMER. To Captain Mends, ArethuSa. 'PLYMoUTES,. JULY 28.—Came down yesterday from Barnpool and anchored in tilt Sound, his Ma jesty's ship Druid. • Arrived a brig .from Si.• Sebastian's, laden With turpentine ; and the Hope, THOMAS, from Water ford, with oats, bound to London ; the dative , STAMBURY,• from Dublin, with wine for this K;rt, M'FEE, from Chepstow; Union, POI Clf , froM,Glou cester ; Ayr, WEAM, from Newport; Barnevelt, GARRETT ; and Plato, WARDELL, from Sunderlat , d;. Susannah, JOHNS ; and filaria, HENNA, froni Wales. Sailed his ship Majesty's 11 olverene, Wiih 14 sail of. transports under convoy for Gibraltar and Cadiz, part of which 'have on board a detachment of the 95th Rifle Corps. - A few days since his Majesty's ship Iris, of 44 guns, Captain SnoturcAsp, fell in with an home ward-bound China fleet, and passed by with them to the Eastward this morning. . Came down the harbour and anchored in the Sound and is Wailed, his Majesty's ship North Star, of 18 guns, Captain Cos, fur the East Indies. Arrived the shipi Caledonia, Bovu, and Two Bro thers, CIIANTLER, from Quebec, laden with mast s for the Duck-yard at this port; .the Arnelican ship, Agnes, from Falmouth, in ballast, and the AMeri can brig Eight Sisters, C. COFFIN, from Boston, laden with naval stores, for orders. Put back his Majesty's ship ffolverene with the transports bound to Gibraltar and Cadz, His Majesty's ship Peacock lakes convoy to the Eastward. Arrived a ship from Quebec with masts for this Dock-yard; also arrived the 'Lena and Harriett, EASTMAN ; 11'slson, LOVERING ; and COUIIieSS of Mex boron glt, DAVIES, from Wales ; therldriau cutter, from Basque Roads, spoke yesterday the Crocodile letter of marque, which ship about 30 leagues to the Westward of. Scilly fell in with and after a smart anion beat off a French brig privateer. The £readnought, of 98 guns, which sailed from this _port on Monday se'nnight, arrived in Basque Roads on Saturday evening, and found there the Scipion, Gibraltar, and Courageux, of the line, with the Fancy and All ian cutlers. The Daring gun-brig and Arrow schooner arrived there on Sun day last, on which evening the Scipion sailed ; on she Tuesday spoke the Valiant, off' the Glennans.; and passed Brest the same evening, but saw none of our cruizers. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 29.—Early yesterday morn ing the expected homeward-bound China fleet pass ed by this port, for the river, under convoy of the St. Albans of 64 guns, consisting of 13 sail and one whaler. The ships are as follows :—Perseverance, Neptune, Coutts, Cumberland, Warren Hastings, Scaleby Castle, Glutton, Marquis of Ely, Princess Amelia, Albion, Kotiinghttm, Thames, and Princess Charlotte. They have been about five months from Canton, touched at Penang, where they left the Cu, 'hells repairing.; and at St. Helena, which they left seven weeks, when they *et. , reel in with Off the Western Isles, .by the Revenge 74 guns, and Pa frigate; they have had a fine passage of a fortnight. The Revenge is arrived here, and the Kris, IVereicle, and St. Albans, are gOne by with the convoy. We are'sorry to learn, that the above fleet bring / no account of the True Briton, which has* been-rniss' ing some time on her passage horn Penang to China" Came in yesterday his Majesty's . ships Pheas" lll and Gelyitheid, from Falmouth. Sailed this day his Majesty's ships BaTtadoesi, Diana, Coquette, and Sopftid On a cruiz?, and Majesty's ship Rifleman with a convoy f o r GJe: l3; sey. HARWICH, JULY 29.- Sailed yesterday the Lark packet for Heligoland i and the Lord Duncan packet for Goltenburgh, whit Mails of the 2.7 th inst.; gi st/ the Freeting bye-boat, with passengers for He!ii,,;' land. FALMOUI'II, JULY 27.—Saturday, arrived th e Princess Arizelia'packet, Captain MAttsom, viri ° MadS tom New York and Halifax ; left the fortuc on the 22d June,_ and the latter on the 3d inst. she brings nothing particularly new. Mr. JAcKsoN w" 5 at New York, waiting the 'arrival of a BritiSh frt.' gate out ; also arrived 66 . 5i/7/CM/h./I 'packer, Car tain • SCHUY LElf; with Mails . from he 14: e , l O ct Islands, 2b days passage; we are happy to find th at the. accounts by her remove the anxiety Lady felt by the Plymouth news, , olthe massacre at que, all was quiet in that island ; the Sandwic4 spoke on the 21st inst. in lat. 67. 43. north long. 38. west; the ship Britannia, from Liverpool for Savannah all well ; she also spoke his Majesty ship Rhin, 36 guns, Captain MA LcoLst, on the look .- - out for a French frigate from'thellauritius. This evening arrived the ship( Harry, ATKI Nso!'/ from Hull bound to Gibraltar, with l ossso f t rait' and mizen masts, having _carried, them away in 3 heavy sea : she laden with bale goods, but ni t expeCted to be obliged to discharge. Also a rrived the Lady Arabella packet, Porn-sous, with iVlO ll5 ' from the Brazils, 42 days passage from Rio de ../3‘• mire ;' ---fo news. Sailed his Majesty's ship Pheasant, .of 18 garl g ' having under convoy the sheer-hulk Gelekeyd fo r Portsmouth ; also the Jane transport, .IA-;xsos,- fo r Deptford; the. brig bright, PA RSONC, for London , last - from thSV4editerranean with - wines, &c.; brig Rachel,. ocx, for Plymouth ;. the Success' GREET, for Liver : pool . ; and, liesoktion,, RosAfer s ' for London. • CORK, JULY 2S.—This morning his ItlbjeFtY .s ship Rota,. Capt. SOMERVILLE, having under C° ° ' voy ten sail of transports with troops on board, o r ' rived in this harbour from Portsmouth. The fob' - lowing are the regiments—the 6th, 5201 h, 3 01 ' 76tb, and 84th. DEAL, JULY 2g.—Arrived his Majesty's ship S t ' Albans, whh the several East Indiamen under co ll. %toy; dlso, the Alligator from Jamaica, and fl'e Ranger . , WHITEHOUSE, from the South Seas. 'T he latter was boarded otf the South Foreland, about I° o'clock last evening, by a French privateer ; tu lch after a , most severe contest, the fiamyr's cr e ` v nobly succeeded in subduing the enemy, by slaYil' it wounding, and knocking several overboard. Remain in the Downs his Majesty's ships as P et last, and several transports, with troops on bo 3rj7 waiting for orders. The whole of the homeward bound have sail ej or the River. SHEERNESS, JULY 27.—Late in the evening 1 " First Lord of the Admiralty and his brother, 06 of the junior Lords, arrived here. The next ing Admiral STANHOPE hoisted the Admiralty 1 111- ' when the ships at the Great and Lithe Nore lined with nineteen guns. Their Lordships nutely examined every part of the Dock-yard, frc the purpose of determining if the alterations 1 take place that was recommended. At three their Lordships went out of harbour in the Coil" missioner's yacht, and proceeded up 'the nk ler Thanies, when every ship at the Great and Li llll Nore saluted as they passed with 19 guns. Three of the Commissioners of the Navy, ' Till ' General BENTHAM, are here for th e same purroit''. JULY 28.—Arrivdhis Maje•sty's gub.brig F"fl ous with men for the Berwick. JULY 29.—Sailed his Majesty's ship 17g f u r Deal. The following is said to be a correel list of sh e stations of the British ships on the French coast At anchor in Basque Roads, the Drear•inonvht, 9 6 j Gibraltar, 83 ; Courageux, 74; Adrian and Fancy. cutters.-oif the Glennans, the Valiant, 7 4.—°,` , Brest, the Poiaiers, 74; Shannon .and Atvel,l. frigates.—Offßourdeaux, the Ar m idc frigate,;-- - ° 4 • the 'Unicorn trig - ate. The Master of the lenity schooner, of Lond ( i th , was, in November last, fined 8001.. Sterling, at New South Wales, for having contravened the Port R e gulations, by secreting four convicts and a 5e21 1131/ on board, sp, 14 the n Place end 'the day, 200 c fantl skirt a n d lakt to tl L Peal thz Pos the !n, , bit ~,. . i . ~!